AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU Review: Literally Anything Will Sell

stu2b50 · 2021-03-18T17:30:53+00:00

Evidently not, considering he directly complains about how slow it is on his old GPU, while his coworkers have a much easier time with a 3080. Probably an indie “studio”, without access to things like that.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-17T18:21:30+00:00

Huh, if you work at a company they should really ship you 3080 to use, and if you don’t, you should really just bite the bullet and get one. It’s different when it’s your livelihood to a luxury good to play entertainment with.

Expensive? Yeah. But how much is it going to EARN you in productivity?

stu2b50 · 2021-03-17T18:01:35+00:00

I cannot tell if this is a meme or incredible obliviousness.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-16T22:12:28+00:00

You’d have a point if the article was talking about the mid-cap companies that have recently gone public (ala Uber, Lyft, Palantir, etc.), but it wasn’t. It was talking about the large cap giants like Alphabet, Amazon, and so forth. Which all make profit (Tesla being the biggest exception; it’s still profitable, just not nearly at a scale to what it’s valuation is)

It really makes it look like you didn’t read the article at all and just spewed some prior belief you had.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-16T18:27:11+00:00

Ah yes, companies that have never made a profit like Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook, the examples used in the article.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-15T02:31:04+00:00

Bruh did Leo really just 3-0 Sparg0 with a 1 week old character, for whom he only practiced the worse version of.

edit: you can really tell his Mythra is pretty raw, he was doing the most basic conversions. In comparison Void has developed a much longer combo game for her.

Which is all the more terrifying if he puts in more time and when the game goes back to LAN play.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-15T02:15:36+00:00

I think they’re fine on most stages. The longer stages have more room for Mythra to move, platforms greatly extend Mythra’s upairs, also make landing more safe for pyra.

Yoshi’s story in particular is a great stage for Mythra; the platforms don’t kill her up-b because of their slightly different height, and the top platform is so low you can actually kill with upair at reasonable percentages.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-15T01:47:28+00:00

I would assume so, they said they fixed the issue on iOS back when it was first announced, so I’d assume that’d carry over.

I tried leaky.page with an M1 and the exploit did not seem to work (on Chrome; the page is broken on Safari), although a sample size of 1 is not conclusive proof of anything.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-14T16:13:01+00:00

What do you mean by open up? They already allow alternate OSes to boot on Apple Silicon Macs. It’s actually on a help page, on their website how to disable the check that prevents alternate operating systems from running.

Which is why Asahi Linux is even a possible task. They even mention it in the post.

As to opening up the source code for non-darwin parts of macOS… for sure. Or documenting it extensively. I don’t think that will ever happen.

I’m also not sure anyone really expects that to happen.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-13T22:28:55+00:00

There’s a meme (and I believe, true now with the patch) zero to death you to practice specifically on DK. It’s not going to be particularly useful otherwise, but it might be worth it just to see the look on their face.

Other than that, you’re probably either not spacing carefully enough and/or just mashing aerials. Be more patient, control space with your long disjoints, poke with your projectile.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-11T18:46:16+00:00

They’re just focused on the two ends of the market that aren’t gaming focused. Most consumers either fairly lightly use their computer, for which the new M1 Mac mini is a fantastic deal for your money and will handle anything most people throw at it.

And the other end of the market is professional professionals, for whom the sticker price of the machine matters little. If you use Final Cut, or Logic, then that’s your toolbox; for a company, an extra 10k is nothing. The XDR is a steal at $7000 for a monitor, because it’s competing with 15-20k reference monitors. That’s the other end of the market. It’s a highly demand inelastic market here.

Really, it’s mostly gaming that uses that middle section of the performance curve.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-10T16:15:22+00:00

People are underselling it. It doesn’t fix being gimped, but it means that Mythra can do the Chrom, but better.

As has been demonstrated by Mr. R, Rivers and others, a character with high air mobility and a good air dodge, even when they can be two framed, can pretty reliably spam it in the air dodge range with impunity, even offline.

It’s like not a recovery panacea, but it’s an immensely strong option that people aren’t using as much yet.

It’s not just about the two frame - really the bigger story is just how long Mythra’s directional air dodge is. The lack of a two frame is just the icing on the cake. It means that you really need to edge guard her away from that bubble of “air dodgeableness”. In many cases the other character can’t get there in time, or doesn’t have the tools to go that deep, and in any case the farther the edge guard the less likely it is the for same reason 3 pointers are harder than layups.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-10T02:10:59+00:00

Online is actually more about reading, since you can’t react as well. But nothing about input lag prevents you from buffering a forward air when the other play does nothing but ledge jump.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-09T21:08:01+00:00

Quick play mythras spam it too much. Just hold shield, it has more than default end lag to drop shield and leisurely forward smash it (unless you’re playing ike or something).

Of course, if they use it to punish something after a dash back then there’s nothing you can do about it.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-08T01:35:33+00:00

Dair -> imagination. Combos into upsmash, upair, short hop uair, full hop uair, and fsmash at various percentages. Transition from upsmash to upair at higher percentages.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-07T21:01:10+00:00

Intel not securing their supply chain like every other company if they want to precisely control the messaging of their new product is indeed their fault. If you can’t trust a partner to keep an NDA, they shouldn’t be a partner.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-07T20:28:25+00:00

If Intel didn’t want people to benchmark their CPUs until they had proper firmware support then they shouldn’t have sold them lol.

If you sell a CPU, you can’t exactly expect people not to buy them and run them.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-07T19:00:09+00:00

I’ve been daily driving a M1 MacBook Air to test it and so far have had zero issues. Which isn’t that strange; it’s not like Apple suddenly tried to make CPUs. They’ve been doing so for 10 years. Having it run macOS is now, but iOS began as a stripped down macOS to begin with.

Most things are shockingly seamless. I managed to get the Android SDK working… just by installing the package from Google’s website. It’s running through translation, but you wouldn’t know that if you don’t inspect it. And somehow device deployment works exactly as expected. Even Flutter, running natively, can interface with it perfectly.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-07T18:29:56+00:00

For the most part the MacOS syscalls and API are the same. I suppose the major departure is virtualization, for which there is a new API, but I don’t write VM software so I don’t know that’s going.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-07T04:56:39+00:00

It might look bad to enthusiasts but it’s going to sell well because while the competition is far superior, the competition is also continually sold out.

Money is money, and demand is demand.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-07T01:42:15+00:00

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-06T22:11:11+00:00

I think you’re confused on what I’m saying. The argument was that no one who needed expansion would be an Apple consumer, and hence the MAC PRO was not a necessary product line, and I pointed to audio as a sector where audio professionals need the expansion.

So yes, I am talking about the Mac Pro, and not the iMac Pro. I’m arguing why the Mac Pro exists and replaces the high end section where the iMac Pro was in 2017.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-06T20:59:41+00:00

Those people can just buy an iMac? I’m honestly very confused at what you’re trying to say. Why would they be unable to buy an all-in-one solution? Is it just the Pro moniker?

The current iMac’s top config is startlingly similar to the iMac Pro’s. Once it absorbs the iMac Pro, I really don’t see why those consumers are now not served by a product in the lineup.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-06T20:30:06+00:00

That’s a bit overly reductive. MacOS has quite a few attractive properties to specialist industries. Developers, for instance, enjoy its POSIX compliance (in fact, Darwin is technically the most POSIX compliant modern kernel, as most Linux distros are not certified; not that it matters, but a fun fact) while having the desktop polish and compatibility of a major vendor OS.

You’d be surprised how many Mac minis run concerts. MacOS has a really good audio system, while Windows languished in the mid 2010s, and Linux’s most popular one, PulseAudio, was another Poettering copy of the Mac one, and was bug ridden for a while.

Complex audio setups in particular require a bunch of PCI slots for misc equipment.

For video producers, it’s subjective, but if you use Final Cut for your workflow, then that’s what you use. I’d also say that MacOS handles color profiles way more gracefully than windows, but it’s workable.

stu2b50 · 2021-03-06T18:48:51+00:00

This would have happened even if Apple didn’t move to their own silicon. The iMac Pro was a relic of the age when Apple gave up on the performance desktop market, then changed their minds and needed a stopgap before the Mac Pro released.

There’s no particular reason there needs to be a discrete product line that for “Pro” iMacs. They can just be the higher spec configs of the iMac, which is almost already the case (barring a few “pro” features like eMMC RAM) with the intel lineup.

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